[Matthew Buckley Smith]

Eratosphereans!

I don't generally post here, but I lurk often and always with interest, and I've felt connected to Eratosphere ever since meeting a number of you a decade ago at West Chester. In the intervening years, I’ve edited, reviewed, corresponded with, and admired from a distance many more. If there is any social medium that feels like home to me, it's this one. Actually, it's the only one I still check in on anymore.

So, I write to let you know I'm starting a podcast. It’s called SLEERICKETS, and it’s about poetry. Sort of. Mostly. My goal is to approximate the experience of talking about poetry over drinks with a gossipy friend. Over the course of the first four episodes, Rhina, Aaron, Maryann, and Alicia all come up in the conversation, and I imagine this community will play no small part in the episodes to come.

I'd love for you all to listen, but I also trust this group to let me know when I get something wrong, or just to help fill in my many gaps in knowledge. I'll doubtless continue lurking here from time to time, but the best way to reach me with complaints, corrections, or ideas for future episodes is through sleerickets@gmail.com or through my website, matthewbuckleysmith.com.

SLEERICKETS is now available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. If you like it, please click "subscribe." If you really like it, leave a rating and a review. The first two episodes are live, and a third is coming soon.

Mostly, I hope the show will entertain you, either in its own right or as an occasion for witty takedowns by Michael, Sam, and Quincy. Either way, I'll feel I've made a contribution.

Thank you all for so robustly populating this house I occasionally haunt.

Yours as ever,
Matthew